I can't ask for more out of life, and the more I learn, the less I know.

I think if you have a passion for what you do then there are no limitations on how long or how much you can accomplish.

I have an awful lot to learn. My dream is to get better and better as I get older.

I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research.

If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.

Someday, when I'm awfully low, and the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you, and the way you look tonight.

To work is to feel alive.

"Benedetto" means the "blessed one" and I feel that I have truly been blessed.

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do

The bottom line of any country is: what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong.

The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.

I have always loved Naoko, and I still loved her. But there is a decisive finality to what exists between Midori and me.

Life is a freak. That’s its hope and glory.

It's not a morbid thing, but I think I've never been afraid of death, which is maybe why I love writing about it.

The easiest way of life is the best.

Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively.

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

With "The Office," they said, "We don't want anyone we recognize, so give us unknown actors," and I think that was the break that I needed. Because I went in and I got the role.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Human rights groups are locked in a fierce competition for big checks from wealthy donors and they need to generate big headlines.